New feature: use Shashin images as WP featured images

[toppa]

sideloading should make this possible - see here: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/25808/setting-a-posts-featured-image-from-an-embedded-youtube-video

The caveats are:

• the featured image is pulled into WP and stored locally, so it won't stay synchronized with any changes to the remote version.
• once it becomes a featured image, it's not a Shashin image - that is, it's not displayed through a Shashin shortcode, so it won't get an expanded view in Shashin's Fancybox.

[rekliner]

It looks like this would be an easy way to choose a featured image for a page or post, but wouldn't work for linking to a specific image searchably. I say this because I'm not sure what else setting the featured image would be good for besides social media/SEO.

In case it helps... I'm currently presenting linked images to properly pull into facebook with thumbnail and caption by adding the following lines to the header: if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] != '' && isset($_GET['shashin_photo_key'])) { $image = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT contentUrl,description FROM wp_shashin_photo WHERE id= ". $_GET['shashin_photo_key'] ); echo ''; echo ''; }